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Love is an act of imagination. For some of us, it will be the greatest creative triumph of our lives.
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We can't make people better by trying to eliminate their weaknesses, but we can help then perform better by building on their strengths.
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I would rather live in Russia on black bread and vodka than in the United States at the best hotels. America knows nothing of food, love or art.
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I'm cautious about a lot of words
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Look at Charlotte Gainsbourg, in the Lars von Trier film Antichrist. She's unbelievable. She doesn't act; she's there. She's great. And you love her for that, because it's so daring, what she has to do. And she does it as if it is nothing. I think she's brave. I fell in love with her when I saw that film. She is a revelation. Total revelation.
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It isnecessary to destroy the pretended nobility, entirely literaryand traditional, of marble and bronze? The sculptor can use twenty different materials, or even more, in a single work, provided that the plastic emotion requires it.
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I figure you're only here for a matter of moments. Ever since I was a kid watching movies I've always wanted to make people laugh or have some sort of emotional reaction.
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In this life nothing is permanent. Joy, sorrow, pain, pleasure - everything is in a constant state of change. Thankfully.
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It’s lovely,†I said, taking an involuntary half step back. “Really, though. I don’t like to handle other people’s cookware.†“That’s the best you can manage? That’s your bright, bold lie?†“Look, lady, I don’t know about you, but I’ve never had somebody corner me on a dark street and try to hand me a frying pan before,†I snapped.
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Talent does things tolerably well; genius does then intolerably better
